Improvement in corset-steels



M. P. BRAY.

Corset-Steels.

Patented Jan. 27, 1874.`

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UNITED STATES -PATrnvT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF NEW HAVEN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND DOWNS &

BASSETT, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT iN coFis'ET-sri-:ELs

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,865, dated January 27, 1874; application filed December 27, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corset-Steels and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

at the center, beneath which the auxiliary spring may be placed after the ends are inserted into the pockets, so that the auxiliary spring may be kept in its proper relative position to the principal steel, but yet be free for slight longitudinal movement.

A is the principal steel; B B, the two end hooks; and C, the central hook. On one steel these would be the hooks, and on the other the eyes. The two end hooks B B are formed yhook C is bent up, and so as to lie over the auxiliary spring, as seen in Fig. 3, the rear be ing left open, so that after the auxiliary spring has been placed in the end pockets, which is done by bending the spring, it may then be slipped beneath the center' hook C. This holds the spring in its proper relative position on the steel; and this auxiliary spring should be a little shorter than the length between the cxtreme ends of the two pockets.

lVhile I prefer to form the pockets in the hooks, these pockets may be formed in a`separate piece, and made independent of the hooks and eyes, and accomplish the same result.

I claim as my invention- The pockets B', attached to the principal steel, to receive the ends of the auxiliary spring, combined with the central support C, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as specified.

monnis r. BRAY.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBiTs, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

